The Hate U Give

The movie tie-in edition of the ground-breaking No. 1 New York Times bestseller.

Read the book that inspired the movie! Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer.

Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping novel about one girl's struggle for justice. Book features :

• Movie cast includes: Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games and Everything, Everything), Regina Hall (Girls Trip) and Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War).
• Movie released in the US on 19 October 2018. Rest of world release dates TBC.

About the Author

Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still lives in Jackson, Mississippi. A former teen rapper, she recently won a Walter Dean Myers Grant, awarded by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. The Hate U Give is her first novel and is the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. Her second novel, On the Come Up, will be published in 2019.